It relied on the collaboration of hundreds of volunteers. The movement is based on positive tasks that value life and combat depression.

Participants are separated between challengers, who are the people who seek help, and the healers, who are kind of godfathers of these people.

In Belo Horizonte and Recife metropolitan area in Brazil, many schools promoted lectures to talk about the Blue Whale game. The first news about Blue Whale appeared in Bulgaria in mid-February As the hype was magnified by thousands sharing the story on the social networks, we just published a warning on our website and spread the link in comments under all shared in Facebook articles and posts.

Then the mainstream media themselves started asking us for interviews and quoting our conclusions that it evidently was a hoax. Two discussion groups about suicide opened on Facebook , but were quickly reported and deleted.

The diffusion of the viral news was stopped within two weeks. It said that the number of this kind of groups is on the rise.

In April , Egyptian news sources claimed a year old schoolboy had committed suicide by taking poisonous tablets to fulfill one of the challenges of the game.

According to the media, the schoolboy was found with a scar in the shape of a blue whale on his right arm. Indian internet watchdog the Centre for Internet and Society accused the coverage of effectively spreading and advertising a "game" for which there is little evidence.

Involvement of Blue Whale challenge game in any of these incidents could not be established. In September , the Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology posted a message in his official Instagram account to warn parents and teachers about the spread of the Blue Whale challenge among Iranian teens.

In Italy, press coverage of "Blue Whale" first appeared on 3 June , in the newspaper La Stampa , which described the challenge as "a bad joke".

The report showed several suicide scenes, mostly from videos on LiveLeak depicting adults unrelated to the challenge. It incorrectly described the footage as evidence of teenagers playing the game.

The report interviewed a schoolmate of the Livorno teenager, two mothers of Russian girls who supposedly took part in the game, and the founder of the Russian Center for the safety of children from internet crimes.

Following the report, coverage of the challenge in the Italian media increased, with many outlets describing it as real. There was a sharp rise in Google searches for the challenge, and some panic.

On 15 and 16 May, newspapers announced the arrest of Budeikin, without saying that it happened months before.

His unconfirmed statements about his supposed victims being "genetical rubbish" were reported as real. Paolo Attivissimo, a journalist and debunker of hoaxes, described the game as "a death myth dangerously exaggerated by sensationalist journalism".

Police received calls from terrified parents and teachers, and there were reports of teenagers taking part in the challenge. These included several cases of self-mutilation and attempted suicide.

Most reports were considered to be false or exaggerated. Alleged participants were reported from all over Italy: Ravenna , [51] Brescia [52] and Siracusa.

On May 22, , the Polizia Postale declared that they had received 40 alarms. On the 24th this number was increased to On its website the Polizia Postale defines Blue Whale as "a practice that seems to possibly come from Russia" and offers advice to parents and teenagers.

In March , authorities in Russia were investigating approximately separate cases of suicide related to the phenomenon. In February a year-old and year-old threw themselves off the top of a story building in Irkutsk , Siberia after completing 50 tasks sent to them.

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